Chest



F. J. BOOK May 1,, 1934.

CHEST Filed Nov. 15, 1933 amend M- Ewn/r cl flaolf.

Patented May 1, 1934 D STATES PATENT OFFICE UN ET This invention relates to new and useful imof the screw 13, with the back of the chest. provements in chests, and is especially designed The slot in the lower end of the stay bar permits as an improvement in the construction shown in the necessary play or limited sliding movement my Patent No. 1,894,849 issued January 17, 1933. of the latter when the lid of the chest is raised 5 The primary object of my invention is to proor closed.

vide novel means for hingedly mounting the seat In practice, when the lid of the chest is raised, rail on the chest lid, whereby when the latter is the seat rail 3 will assume an absolutely perraised, the seat rail will assume an absolutely perpendicular position, as illustrated in Figure 2 pendicular position. of the drawing, and, as a result, the chest may 10 In the accompanying drawing, which is for be placed near or against the wall and the lid illustrative purposes only and is therefore not raised, without causing any interference of the drawn to scale: seat rail with the wall.

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a From the foregoing description taken in conchest, illustrating the application of my invennection with the drawing, it is thought that the 15 tion, the lid closed. construction, operation and advantages of my Figure 2 is a similar View, the lid raised and invention will be readily understood without re- Figure 3 is a detail fragmentary view of the seat quiring a more extended explanation. rail, stay bar and associated parts. Having described my invention, what I claim Referring to the drawing for a more particuas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

20 lar description of my invention and in which 1. In combination with a chest with a hinged drawing like parts are designated by like referlid, a perpendicular seat rail and means for once characters throughout the several views, the hingedly mounting the seat rail on top of the lid numeral 1 designates the chest, 2 the lid which and slidably connecting the same with the back is hingedly connected to the chest in the usual of the chest, whereby, when the lid is raised, the

25 way and 3 the seat rail. The seat rail is hinged at seat rail will assume an absolutely perpendicular its lower inner edge, as at 4, to the top of the position.

lid and connected at its lower outer surface to 2. In combination with a chest with a hinged the back 5 of the chest, by the stay bar 6. lid, a perpendicular seat rail and means for In the present embodiment of my invention, hingedly mounting the seat rail on top of the 30 the stay bar 6 consists of a fiat metal elongated lid and slidably connecting the same with the strip, comprising a straight upper end portion '7, back of the chest, whereby, when the lid is raised, rigidly secured to the lower outer face of the the seat rail will assume an absolutely perpenseat rail 3 by the fastening screws 8, a contiguous dicular position, said means comprising a stay outwardly curved or bowed portion 9, which exbar rigidly connected at its upper end to the lower 35 tends over the hinged back edge, as 10, of the outer face of the seat rail and slidably conlid, and the straight depending lower portion 11, nected at its lower end to the back of the chest.

connected at its slotted lower end 12 by means FRANK J. BOOK. 

